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Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage: Copacabana

Read "Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage: Copacabana" reviewed by Howard Mandel


Everyone wants to go to Brazil, and one of the easiest, most pleasant ways of doing so is to listen to bassist Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage. The third album organized by Matta, a native of Sao Paolo who moved to Rio in 1970 and the U.S. in 1985, conjures the vistas and moods of a country that is idealized as a source of breezy airs and pulsing rhythms. That Brazil in fact even more than in myth generates ...

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Trio Da Paz: 30

Read "Trio Da Paz: 30" reviewed by Howard Mandel


Only very special collaborations last 30 years, and rarely do they become more exciting and together over the decades. Trio da Paz, however, is one such long-lasting and still lightning band. The team of drummer Duduka Da Fonseca, guitarist Romero Lubambo and bassist Nilson Matta, all Brasilian jazzmen of New York City, is just as dashing today as when the three first met in 1985. So 30 , their seventh album, wastes no time glancing back. Rather, Trio ...

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The Brazilian Trio: Águas Brasileiras

Read "Águas Brasileiras" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Brazilian waters beckon with their beauty and energies, and this trio serves as a perfect vessel to carry the ears across that aqua viva. Pianist Helio Alves, bassist Nilson Matta and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca--three Brazilian heavies long based in New York—have played together in different configurations and situations for decades. And when they first banded together under this appellation for Forests (Zoho Music, 2008), they quickly earned the respect they so richly deserve by netting a Latin Grammy nomination. ...

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Trio Da Paz: 30

Read "30" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Time really does fly when you're having fun. Just ask Trio da Paz. Guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca are celebrating three decades of togetherness with the aptly-titled 30. It's a collection of music that, like the best of their work, finds them merging the sounds of Brazil with the attitude of The Big Apple, creating Brazilian jazz that finds the perfect balance between the two poles in that genre's name. Past ...

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Nilson Matta: EastSideRioDrive

Read "EastSideRioDrive" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Many a bassist is renowned or applauded for the way they serve as ballast in a band, but what of the bassists who go the other way, providing lift instead of weight? There are precious few of them out there, but Nilson Matta is one one of them. Matta, whether working with the collectively-operated Trio Da Paz, backing cellist Yo-Yo Ma, playing with any number of legendary jazz figures, or working his own projects, tends to do something that few ...

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta has, like all artists, has drawn inspiration for his music from a variety of sources--of which a play and a movie serve as the influence for the moving Black Orpheus. Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions for the 1957 Vinicius de Moraes Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceicao and the 1959 Black Orpheus movie that went on to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is beautifully and tastefully reimagined here with the benefit of an all-star ...

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


This CD is the culmination of Nilson Matta's lifelong dream: to record his interpretation of the Orpheus music from the Brazilian play and movie of the 1950s. To make it happen, Matta enlisted fifteen superb players from Brazil and the United States, building his ensemble up from the rhythmic, native heart of the music. The result is a stunning accomplishment: a fresh translation of the timeless classics from Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius De Moraes, and Louis Bonfa, set in a ...

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Motéma Music Will Release Nilson Matta’s Black Orpheus On February 12, 2013

Motéma Music Will Release Nilson Matta’s Black Orpheus On February 12, 2013

Source: Cary Goldberg

Bassist’s Inspired Re-imagining of Classic Brazilian Music Includes Contributions from Leny Andrade, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen and Gretchen Parlato When Nilson Matta was a young child in his native Brazil, his father brought home an LP of the music from the play Orfeu da Conceição, by the playwright Vinicius de Moraes, which retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the then-contemporary setting of Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. Matta, along with his entire family, were entranced ...

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Performance / Tour

Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur @ The Kitano (NYC) on June 17-18

Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur @ The Kitano (NYC) on June 17-18

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

In Support & Celebration of Their New Recording On Motéma Music—MOJAVE Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur Featuring Victor Lewis & Café! The Kitano is located at 66 Park Ave., NYC, 212 885 7000 “An exceptional collaboration that has produced some exceptional music." —Straight No Chaser “The primary importance of Mojave is its global, yet accessible appeal. Anyone with an interest in Brazilian jazz music will find Mojave scintillatingly addictive" —Inside World Music Uniting their mutual love for both ...

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On May 10, 2011 - Motema Music Will Release "Mojave" From Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur

On May 10, 2011 - Motema Music Will Release "Mojave" From Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

On May 10, 2011—Motéma Music will release MOJAVE from NILSON MATTA & RONI BEN-HUR Featuring VICTOR LEWIS & CAFE CD Release Celebrations For Mojave: May 25 @ 7:00 PM SOKA University—Roni Ben-Hur (guitar), Nilson Matta (bass), Peter Sarik (piano), Juli Fabian (vocals, debut American performance!), David Hodek (drums) Campus Green Stage May 27 @ 7:00 PM Dizzy's @ The San Diego Wine & Culinary Center—Roni Ben-Hur (guitar), Nilson Matta (bass), Peter Sarik (piano), Juli ...

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Jazz at the Berrie Center, Ramapo College Presents Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage

Jazz at the Berrie Center, Ramapo College Presents Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Travel to Rio, Right in the Garden State! Jazz at the Berrie Center, Ramapo College Presents Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage Featuring Tenor Saxophonist Harry Allen and Trumpeter Claudio Roditi Saturday, January 19 at 8 pm Berrie Center, Sharp Theater Ramapo College 505 Ramapo Valley Rd Mahwah, NJ Tickets: 201-684-7844 $15-$26. Chase away the mid-winter blues with Brazilian Voyage! The group sails in on an ocean breeze, ...

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New CD "Green Heart" by Brazilian Musicians Nilson Matta, Ze Luis, and Paulo Braga to be Released on Green Label, New Orbita; CD Release Party at Joe's Pub, Monday, Dec. 17

New CD "Green Heart" by Brazilian Musicians Nilson Matta, Ze Luis, and Paulo Braga to be Released on Green Label, New Orbita; CD Release Party at Joe's Pub, Monday, Dec. 17

Source: Leah Grammatica Public Relations

"The Amazon Rainforest is called the lungs of the earth because it recycles the natural elements and cleans up pollution from all over the world. Currently, the rainforest destruction in some parts of the world is estimated to be...the equivalent of 7.5 football fields per minute." - Alice Benzecry, Ph.D.

A team of award-winning, world-class musicians has converged to create an exciting, first-of-its-kind compilation CD, GREEN HEART, a collection of songs of varying, sublime textures that epitomize the best in ...

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Águas Brasileiras

Zoho Music
2020

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30

Zoho Music
2016

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EastSideRioDrive

World Blue Records
2015

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Hugs and Kisses

From: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus
By Nilson Matta

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